Morrow is today

I have a long history of liking injury prone pitchers and rarely do they pay off.

Josh Johnson

Brett Anderson

Ben Sheets

Brandon Morrow

are the four who come to mind and all of them left me looking silly. I have to keep that in mind as I continue to hope that Ryu can defy the injury odds and come back.

The Dodgers have decided to play my game. They just added long injured Brandon Morrow to the stable of oft-injured pitchers trying to help the Dodgers in 2017.

Morrow who always seemed to have the stuff of a bullpen pitcher instead of a starter will be trying to make the Dodgers major league bullpen this spring. At one time Morrow had as electric stuff as any in baseball but after making the 2015 Padre roster as the fifth starter his shoulder caused him to miss almost two years. Sound familiar? In his case it was a shoulder impingement, not a torn labrum but he has a checkered health history nonetheless.